The Advance

Issue date: 2/29/08 Section: News

Hank Aaron.

1504 - Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Native Americans to provide him with supplies.

1916 - Child labor: In South Carolina, the minimum working
age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from 12 to 14 years old.

1932 - TIME magazine features eccentric American politician William "Alfalfa" Murray on its cover after Murray stated his intention to run for President of the United States.

1940 - For her role as "Mammy" in "Gone with the Wind," Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African-American to win an Academy Award.

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1960 - An earthquake in Morocco kills over 3,000 people and nearly destroys Agadir in the southern part of the country.

1972 - Hank Aaron becomes the first player in the history of Major League Baseball to sign a $200,000 contract.

1988 - South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 clergymen during a five-day
anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town.

2000 - Six-year-old Dedrick Owens shoots and kills Kayla Rolland, also six-years-old, at Theo J. Buell Elementary School in Mount Morris Township, Michigan.

Births
1692 - John Byron
1904 - Pepper Martin
1916 - Dinah Shore
1924 - Carlos Humberto Romero
1948 - Jir? Akagawa
1960 - Richard Ramirez
1964 - Lyndon Byers
1968 - Chucky Brown
1972 - Dave Williams
1972 - Pedro Zamora
1976 - Ja Rule
1980 - Taylor Twellman

Deaths
1604 - John Whitgift
1744 - John Theophilus Desaguliers
1820 - Johann Joachim Eschenburg
1868 - Ludwig I of Bavaria
1928 - Ina Coolbrith
1940 - Edward Frederic Benson
1944 - Pehr Evind Svinhufvud
1964 - Frank Albertson
1968 - Tore Ørjasæter
2000 - Dennis Danell
2004 - Jerome Lawrence

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